Based on the exhibit, the company stores application logs in Amazon S3 for 400 days. The logs are read heavily for the first 30 days, occasionally for the next 90 days, and very rarely after that. Retrieval after day 120 can take up to several hours, but the data must remain available until day 400. Which lifecycle policy is the most cost-effective fit?

Keep all logs in S3 Standard for 400 days and enable requester pays to reduce the company's bill.

Requester Pays only shifts request costs to whoever accesses the object. It does not reduce the storage cost of retaining the logs for 400 days, and it is not appropriate when the company itself must retain and read the data for compliance and troubleshooting.

Transition logs directly from S3 Standard to S3 Glacier Deep Archive after 30 days and expire them at 400 days.

Deep Archive is cheaper for very cold data, but retrieval is significantly slower than the several-hour recovery window described in the exhibit. That makes it a poor fit for the period after day 120 when the logs must still be retrievable within hours.

Move logs to S3 Intelligent-Tiering only and disable lifecycle transitions because access is unpredictable.

Intelligent-Tiering is most useful when access patterns are unknown or change frequently. In this scenario, the access pattern is clearly defined, so explicit lifecycle transitions are usually cheaper than paying the monitoring overhead of Intelligent-Tiering across the entire retention period.

What does this SAA-C03 question test?

Static NAT maps one inside address to one outside address.

What is the correct answer to this question?

The correct answer is: Transition logs to S3 Standard-IA after 30 days, then to S3 Glacier Flexible Retrieval after 120 days, and expire them at 400 days. — The best policy matches each storage class to the actual access pattern. S3 Standard is appropriate for the initial heavy-read period. S3 Standard-IA reduces cost during the next 90 days when access becomes occasional. S3 Glacier Flexible Retrieval is the right long-term archive class because the logs are rarely accessed after day 120 but still need to be available within hours. Expiring the objects at 400 days meets the retention requirement without paying for unnecessary storage afterward. Keeping everything in Standard is operationally simple, but it is the most expensive option for long-term retention. Glacier Deep Archive is cheaper than Glacier Flexible Retrieval, but its retrieval speed is too slow for the stated recovery requirement. Intelligent-Tiering is better when access is uncertain; here, the access pattern is known well enough to use cheaper explicit lifecycle transitions.

What should I do if I get this SAA-C03 question wrong?

Then try more questions from the same exam bank and focus on understanding why the wrong options are tempting.